Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Algebra: Theoretical and Practical The examples and exercises are, in the great majority of in stances, new. Several, however, have been taken from foreign, and particularly German, works and some are from English writers of past. Times, but none from living English authors, ex cept in a few instances in which improved solutions are given or indicated. Several instances of this kind will be found in the Chapter on the Diophantine Analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.